This week in nursery, the children had a fantastic time exploring sand through hands-on play. It was a great way to learn about textures and changes — all part of our Understanding the World learning in EYFS.

We started with dry sand, which felt soft, grainy, and loose. The children enjoyed pouring it, sifting it, and watching it slip through their fingers. It made gentle sounds as it moved, but it was tricky to build with — it kept falling apart!

Then we added water and discovered wet sand. It felt cool, sticky, and smooth. The children noticed how the sand changed colour and became perfect for building shapes like sandcastles. It held together much better than dry sand!

This activity sparked lots of curiosity and big words, helping the children explore cause and effect, develop fine motor skills, and enjoy sensory play.

👏 Well done to all our little explorers — you’re learning so much through play

This week in the 2yo nursery, we had so much fun with water play! There were lots of giggles, splashes, and curious little hands exploring all the ways we can play and learn with water.

The children loved:

• Filling up jugs, cups, and containers
• Pouring water from one to another — sometimes it went in, sometimes it splashed out!
• Watching the water flow and swirl
• Feeling the cool, wet water on their hands and arms

Water play is more than just fun — it helps our little ones:

• Build strong hands and fingers by holding and pouring
• Learn about full and empty, heavy and light
• Discover what happens when we pour, tip, or splash
• Practice taking turns and playing together

It was a joyful, splashy week full of learning through play. Well done to all our little water explorers — you made a big splash in nursery this week! 

This week the 2yo nursery was full of excitement as we explored transport through play! The children had a brilliant time discovering how vehicles move and using their imaginations to create their own little adventures.

We:

• Zoomed toy cars and trucks around the room
• Built roads and tracks with blocks
• Painted with car wheels to make colourful patterns
• Put cars down a big pipe and watched them race out the other end — so fast and fun!

There were lots of giggles and “wows” as the children explored movement, speed, and sound. It was a fantastic way to learn through play, build motor skills, and enjoy working together.

Our little artists had so much fun making car and truck paintings! We dipped the wheels into paint and zoomed them across big sheets of paper — what a colourful, messy adventure!

The children loved:

• Rolling the cars through paint and watching the tracks and patterns appear
• Mixing bright colours together as the wheels spun and slid
• Creating pictures that looked just like roads, tracks, and traffic fun!

This activity was part of our transport theme, and it was a big hit! The children were so proud of their artwork — each one was unique, full of colour, and full of movement. It was a brilliant way to get creative, explore how things work, and have lots of fun at the same time. Well done, little drivers — your paintings were amazing.

We went on a mini beast hunt with our curious 2 year olds this week which was a fun and educational way to introduce them to the world of small creatures and their habitats. Our 2 year olds had a brilliant time during this activity, got plenty of fresh air, they were encouraged to use their observation skills, and it gave them a chance to get hands-on with wildlife.

Our 2 year olds have definitely engaged in the planting and digging activities over the last two weeks. This type of play is beneficial for their development in various ways, including fine motor skills, sensory exploration, and fostering a connection with nature. 

All of our parents came into school to join their children in their Easter crafts session and Easter egg hunt. Everyone made a lovely happy Easter card and did some fun activities like paint stamping and colouring Easter Egg pictures.

We all finished the session with a Easter egg hunt, the children did really well at finding all the eggs. Thank you to all our parents for coming.

Last week we learnt how to care for our pets, the children gently stroked and fed carrots and hay to our ACE Guinea Pigs. We had to be very quiet and very careful with our fury little friends.

We started the week off by feeding and watering all the animals (chickens & gunnie pigs) we have in school. All the children helped and you were very quite so you didn’t scare the animals. We all talked about looking after them and how it is important to give them food and water and to keep them clean.

Looking after animals teaches children Love , caring, self-confidence and Empathy. It also helps with reducing stress and anxiety.

Mrs Rowbottom read us all a lovely book called on the farm. Everyone listened very carefully and they made lots of loud animal noises. All the children loved playing with the farm animals and making all the animal noises….

How amazing it was to see all the children completing all the different puzzles and jigsaws we played with… what fantastic concentration and motor skills.

For these 2 weeks we all have been thinking about taking care of the birds in our local area as part of the Big Garden Bird Watch. We went on to the big playground to see if we could spot some birds, then we left some bird seed for them to eat. All the children played in the bird seed, then we all made a beautiful collage using bird feathers. we used our touch senses to feel all the different textures and we developed attention and fine motor skills as well as learning different bird names.

How exciting its Luna new year, we started the week eating some cooked noodles, most of the 2 year olds did like them. Then we cooked some more noodles to play in…. we all had great fun playing in the noodles and you all showed how amazing you fine motor skills are by picking up the noodles with the tweezers.

We all did some great colouring in pictures and making gift envelope’s. To finish the week we all made a snake using bubble-wrap dipped in paint…

Happy Luna new year (of the Snake)

All the children helped cooked banana bread this week in the 2yo nursery. We all did some great mixing and what amazing concentration from all the children. We listened really well to the teacher giving instructions. We cooked the banana bread, then when it cooled down we all ate some it was yummy, well done 2 year old nursery.